Volume 17

Instituto de Medicina Tropical • IMT

The effect of egg dose, and host age and sex on susceptibility of Cm albino mice jirds (Meriones unguiculatus) to primary infection by Echinococcus granulosus (Batsch, 1786) – 59-68

C. COLLI & P. M. SCHANTZ

Standardization of the immunoelectrophoresis test with whole and purified nydatid cyst fluid antigens for the diagnosis of human hydatidosis – 69-74

J. A. GUISANTES, L. A. YARZABAL, V. M. VARELA-DiAZ, M. L. RICARDES 1& E. A. COLTORTI 

Transferable resistance in cultures of Salmonella typhimurium isolated in Recife , Brazil – 75-78

M. MAGALHAES h A. VERAS 

Collective asthma due to castor bean allergy in Ourinhos, SP: Follow-up study after industrial processing of castor bean was stopped – 79-82

A. STRAUSS

Erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity in malarial region population of SLo Paulo (Iguape) – 83-91

S. B. ITSKAN & P. H. SALDANHA 

Susceptibility of three strains of Biomphalaria tenagophila from São Paulo and Paraná States ( Brazil ) to infection with Schistosoma mansoni – 92-96

P. P. CHIEFFI

The evaluation of host efficiency and vector potential of laboratory juvenilzed vectors of Chagas’ disease. I – Effects of developmental changes induced by juvenile hormone analogues in Panstrolzgylus megistus (Hemiptera-Reduviidae) on the susceptibility of the insects to gut infection with Trypanosoma cruzi – 97-102

A. PERLOWAGORA-SZUMLEWICZ. W. B. PETANA & M. J. FIGUEIREDO

THERAPEUTIC ASSAYS

Human rabies. I – Intensive treatment – 103-110

M. LOPEZ, J. NEVES, E. C. MOREIRA, R. REIS, W. L. TAFURI, J. E. PITTELLA, R. P. MARINHO, U. D. MARRA, J. M. ALVARES, I. DINIZ FILHO, 0. S. SILVA, L. F. FOSCARINI, M. B. RIBEIRO, G. B. CAMPOS, M. T. MARTINS #& M. T. GONTIJO 

Clinical trial in chronic Chagas’ disease with nifurtimox in three posologic schedules of long duration – 111-125

J. R. CANÇADO, A. de A. SALGADO, U. D. MARRA, J. M. ALVARES & J. R. MACHADO

CASE REPORTS

Dermatophytosis by Microsporum persicolor. First case in Brasil – 126-128

C. D. RAMOS ,& A. T. LONDERO